So Trader Joe's used to sell Charles Shaw wine for $2 a bottle and was known as 2 Buck Chuck. The point of this thread is to show off your 2 Buck Struck (coin, medal or token) that cost you $2 US or less, without shipping. This 1914 Ceylon 1 cent was $0.75.
So this one looks like someone spilled a little ripple on it, but for $0.50 who cares? 1904 Russia Kopek.
I like to consider myself a bargain connoisseur. This was $2 (lot of 5 for $10) AE Stater from Chola Dynasty of Sri Lanka - 985-1014 AD
Here's the original: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpstanton/2515262428 Probably not one grape in the whole bottle.
Now this is my kind of thread. Usually while I am browsing the more expensive coins at a coin shop my wife is looking through the bulk world coin bins. We have lots that cost 10 cents or less. We will start with these 2 medals. Total spent was $1.50
Here's some of my favorite under $2 cherrypicks. Most of these are from a foreign silver coin lot I bought for $25 this weekend (divided price by # of coins) 18(something) arrows Seated 5c - $1.47 1902 (tough date) 50 sen - $1.47 1772 OM 1 Reale - $1.47 1786 (shipwreck?) 1 Reale - $1.31 1835 Threepence - $1.47 1931D (tough date) Mercury dime - $1.30 And my most favorite of the lot, an 1820 shilling - $1.47
The java coin looks really nice. I love when coins have that type of patina and design that show how old they really are.
I was the only one to bid on this coin on Ebay. I won it for .75 cents. Shipping was free. To my surprise, even though the seller lost $ on this auction, this coin also came with a bonus as I was this particular sellers first customer. This one was free
I wanted to share this deal I recently got. Probably the best find in a couple years. Price: $0.75 (lot of 5 for $3.75) AE Broad Fals | 30mm | 5.61g 403 AH (1012-1013 AD) Mahmud of the Ghaznavid Dynasty Bust Mint, present day Lashkargah, SW Afghanistan Album 1614 I was browsing eBay last week when I saw a lot of five Indian coins for under $4. Catching my eye, I clicked in to see that three were common post-1945 copper pieces but one was an Arabic princely state and one was this. The photos were awful and I didn't expect the two pieces to be much but I've been trying to get better with Arabic coins and figured it could be a fun piece. I posted it in a FB group and someone was able to quickly help ID it. The coin is very rare piece that does not commonly appear. The "Broad Fals" name is used to differentiate the pieces that are 30-35mm from the more common Fals that measure around 20-30mm. Stephen Album writes "the very broad fulus of Bust were never well struck, and most surviving examples are unpleasantly worn, damaged, or corroded". An interesting tibit of information I found while researching this piece is that is was issued under the first Sultan. As in, Sultan Mahmud was the first ruler across the Islamic world to use the title. Here is the Zeno category of which my coin belongs. Below is an auction from Album where a similar AE Broad Fals from Bust, 403 AH sold for $110.
